The Nation was shocked to receive news of the massacre of 10 Muslim civilians in Panama near Pottuvil. This brutal act must be condemned unreservedly. It is another deliberate attempt to provoke our continuing conflict and add to the misery of communities who want to live in peace.
20 September 2006
The killing of the seventeen aid workers and the disappearance of Fr Thuraingham Jimbrown and his associate Mr Vimalathas have shocked the nation and even the world. Pertinent questions are being raised for which answers are imperative.
01 September 2006
Many Sri Lankans were shocked and dismayed with the ugly scenes at the anti-war front peace rally shown on TV on the 17th.
22 August 2006
The current escalation of hostilities is alarming and has spread immense human suffering and sorrow overnight. If it continues, it can lead to a large scale war that very few Sri Lankans want.
08 August 2006
On a recent pastoral visit to Mannar and Kebettigollawa we were greatly distressed at the deadly violence that has been unleashed against fellow Sinhalese and Tamils living on either side of the A9 road. Many innocent, unarmed civilians have been killed, injured and displaced, not by accident but by fellow Sri Lankans.
01 August 2006
The Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) has announced that one of its churches - St. Peter's in Sabangan, Mountain Province - has been demolished in order to enable a government-coordinated project of constructing an open-air gymnasium, despite a civil court case declaring the Diocese of Northern Philippines as the rightful owner of the property.
01 August 2006
Anglican Bishop Duleep de Chickera of Colombo, Sri Lanka, says he will not visit Britain unless it lifts the mandatory fingerprinting of visa applicants from his nation, or applies it to citizens of all countries.
26 July 2006
The deliberate and brutal attack on innocent civilians at Kebittigollawa that has killed more than sixty persons and injured many others needs to be vehemently and outrightly condemned.
16 June 2006
For contribution to the funds for the Java Earthquake Disaster, cheques can be issued to Diocese of Singapore and please write ACROSS at the back of the cheque.
06 June 2006
Resounding cheers and shouts of joy filled the ground of the St. Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore, as Anglican Primates, bishops and clergy with raised hands, singing 'Christ triumphant, ever reigning,' gathered to pray and bless the new Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia, Dr John Chew.
06 February 2006